Improvement in hair-crimpers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRIETTA H. ADAMS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAIR-CRIMPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,010, dated March 24, 1863.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRIETTA H. ADAMS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Crimping Hair; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the inachine, representing it open. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof closed. Fig. 3 is a vertical lon gitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The subject of my invention is a double crimper, formed with flutes of different sizes and reversible, so as to admit of the use of either size, as hereinafter explained.

The invention further consists in the use of a hinge of peculiar construction, in combination with a double crimper; and, further, in the use of a hook or other suitable catch or fastening, in combination with a double crimper and hinge, constructed as described.

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may be enabled to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A B represent two plates or pieces of any suitable hard wood, formed on their respective sides with longitudinal flutes or grooves a b and c b.

C C are two hinges, each secured by screws c to the horizontal center of each of the plates A B, and connected by a metal link (J2, the whole constituting a double hin ge, upon which the plates A B may turn so as to bring either their front or back surfaces together.

D represents a hook pivoted at d to the plate A, and catching over pin E on the plate B, so as to secure the said plates in eitherr closed position in which they may be placed.

The flutes c and b are of equal size, and adapted tc fit closely together when the machine is folded in the manner shown in Fig. 2. The flutes a b are smaller than the flutes a b, but adapted to one another, so that they may fit closely together when the machine is placed in the reverse position.

Operation: The apparatus, having been heated before the fire or on a stove, or in any other suitable manner, is applied to one side of the hair and secured by the hook or any other suitable fastening. The hair will thus be effectually crimped in one or two minutes, when the machine may be removed and applied to the other side.

Either side of the apparatus is used, accordingly as a wide or narrow crimp is desired.

Being made of wood, the machine cannot cause any injury to the hair from overheating.

I do not restrict myself to the precise form of hinge herein shown,but propose to use any of analogous construction which may be adapted for use in the reverse positions. If preferred, a hinge may be applied at each side instead of one in the center. Neither do I wish to be understood as claiming a mere duplication of an instrument, the advantage resulting from any invention being, first, an economical means of multiplying the instrument; second, the great convenience of carrying two instruments in this manner; third, the exemption thus ai'orded from the not unfrequent annoyance occasioned by charrlng an instrument while the work is in progress at times when another is not accessible; and, fourth, the discretionary use of large and small crimps in the same instrument.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A double hair-crimper adapted for use in reversed positions, substantially as herein described.

2. In combination therewith, a hinge or hinges, applied substantially as set forth, to adapt the machine for use in either position.

3. The hook D, or other suitable catch or fastening, in the described combination with a double hair-crimper.

H. H. ADAMS.

Witnesses GHAs. SMITH, J oHN P. JAcoBs. 

